City of Vaughan blames hacker attacker for Twitter meltdown

Vaughan likes to refer to itself as the city above Toronto. Geographically, that’s true. When it comes to Twitter buffoonery, it’s also true.

The City of Vaughan is clearly the employer of one major snowflake.

Or that was until this happened.

(WARNING – PROFANE TWEET BELOW)

One offending tweet and, boom, you’re an Internet hero.

The tweet, of course, has been removed.

In fact, the entire Twitter account for the City of Vaughan is gone. It was an account with access restricted to only two people, according to the Toronto Star. Must be too big a responsibility for the city. That’s a major fail, according to PR expert Elissa Freeman.

Not before it was noticed and retweeted widely. Even if some people think the attention is unwarranted.

Oh my gosh, did someone tweet from the wrong account? Let's all shame them and analyze a tweet we never would have seen in the first place.

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